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From: john@genrad.UUCP (John Nelson)
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Subject: Re: functions returning pointers to functions
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Date: Tue, 13-Dec-83 15:26:25 EST
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I believe that the easiest way to get around the problem is to use
a typedef:

typedef int (*FUNCTION)();

then you can declare the function returning a pointer to function as:

FUNCTION getroutine(name, table)

This SHOULD work with all K&R C compilers